WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: nosleepingdog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/ WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: nosleepingdog en Fri, 24 May 2013 17:27:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 colmcb on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509817 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:45:41 +0000 colmcb 509817@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you, thank you!! I knew there had to be a way.
nosleepingdog you just made my day!! I can't wait to try this
now!

]]> nosleepingdog on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509431 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:39:27 +0000 nosleepingdog 509431@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ PC people, come forward here!

I'm a Mac user too, but I just googled "windows diacritical marks" and got some hits that look helpful, including the ones below. Windows has key commands similar to the Mac --- typically on a PC it seems you type Control and then a certain key to get the mark, like a particular accent mark, and the cursor stays put and then you type the letter. é like that

Foreign Language Characters, Diacritics, Accent Marks, Computers ...
Mar 19, 2010 ... Typing International Accent Marks and Diacritics: Theory, Charts, & Tips for the QWERTY keyboard (mostly Windows). KeyBoard Help topics ...
http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html - Cached - Similar

Accented Characters
Diacritical mark. Key combination. Samples. ´ (acute accent) ... For Windows 98 & 2000: From the Start menu, choose Settings, then Control Panel, ...
faculty.mansfield.edu/bholtman/holtman/acchars.htm - Cached - Similar

]]> colmcb on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509406 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:22:00 +0000 colmcb 509406@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your responses so far. I have a PC, not a MAc.
Cartoslaibrary - (again, I'm new to this so please bare with
me)...are you saying that I should type my posts in Word and
then cut/paste? I don't have an iPad. I have tried, in
wordpress.com, to change both my blog language (but that makes
everything in the blog Spanish, which I don't want), and
also changing the interface language to Spanish, but that
doesn't seem to be doing it either. Do most people just
cut and paste? It seems like I'd be doing twice the amount
of work then - maybe I'm just misundertanding.

]]> cartoslibrary on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509224 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:08:04 +0000 cartoslibrary 509224@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ¡hola! On the iPad go to Settings General International. On the Mac use System Preferences language&Text. Then type away with your text processor and cut and past into your blog. Works for me, but I prefer Ms Word language settings.
Good Luck.

]]> 1tess on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509192 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:02:32 +0000 1tess 509192@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Also on Macs (and I'm guessing there is an equivalent function on other operating systems), you can use the option key plus (usually) a vowel to add accent marks:
å é á é í ó ú î â ê ô û etc… ¿?

]]> 1tess on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509187 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:54:05 +0000 1tess 509187@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ On Macs one can change the language you use in various programs (including in browers). System Preferences —> Personal —> International —> choose languages.

I'm guessing there is an equivalent on Windows operating systems??

]]> colmcb on "Cannot figure out how to write in Spanish" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-figure-out-how-to-write-in-spanish#post-509177 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:17:22 +0000 colmcb 509177@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would like my blog interface to be in English, but when I post something, I want to write in both English and Spanish. If I have a Spanish word in my post I want the accent marks to show, the letter n (with the ~ on top), I want to be able to write questions and exclamations with the upside down question mark and exclamation marks, etc. In other words, I want to be able to write Spanish words as they are truly written. I've tried changing the language on the blog and on the interface and nothing seems to work. What am I doing wrong? I am new to this. Thanks so much for any advice you can give

]]> thesacredpath on "adding new category to multiple posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-new-category-to-multiple-posts#post-487013 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:04:13 +0000 thesacredpath 487013@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> nosleepingdog on "adding new category to multiple posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-new-category-to-multiple-posts#post-486987 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:04:18 +0000 nosleepingdog 486987@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thesacredpath,

Thank you. I had never opened up the bulk edit feature before. It was easy to do what I needed to do.

Appreciate the help.

]]> thesacredpath on "adding new category to multiple posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-new-category-to-multiple-posts#post-486948 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:12:09 +0000 thesacredpath 486948@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You cannot using MarsEdit for that. You would have to do it one at a time. You can use the bulk edit function in the dashboard at posts > edit.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/

]]> nosleepingdog on "adding new category to multiple posts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-new-category-to-multiple-posts#post-486941 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:48:57 +0000 nosleepingdog 486941@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've decided to add a category that will apply to perhaps 20 or 30 existing posts. Is there a way to add the new category all at once to these posts?

In case it matters, I use an offline editor, Marsedit, because when I started with WordPress the online editor did not work well with Safari.

Thanks!

http://nosleepingdogs.wordpress.com/

]]> raincoaster on "linking to added pages, in sidebar" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-to-added-pages-in-sidebar#post-451010 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:44:04 +0000 raincoaster 451010@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What is that?

]]> nosleepingdog on "Customize navigation bar and pages widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customize-navigation-bar-and-pages-widget#post-450808 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:24:36 +0000 nosleepingdog 450808@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How did this work out for you, manojandsurya?

I too want to have pages that are not listed on the horizontal nav bar at the top, since that gets crowded, and just have them listed in the sidebar using the Pages Widget. In the help for the widget I see that one can have pages that do not show up in the sidebar (are not "visible" to the widget) but no hint that this will keep them from showing in the nav bar.

]]> nosleepingdog on "linking to added pages, in sidebar" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-to-added-pages-in-sidebar#post-450806 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:17:23 +0000 nosleepingdog 450806@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Raincoaster, Thank you. I will check out that Pages widget.

Are you a PNW type raincoaster?

]]> raincoaster on "linking to added pages, in sidebar" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-to-added-pages-in-sidebar#post-448954 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:38:06 +0000 raincoaster 448954@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That won't, however, prevent them from showing in the header. Only by making them sub-pages will they be prevented from showing in the header.

I THINK there may be a workaround using the CSS upgrade, but I'm not expert enough with CSS to know what it would be.

]]> raincoaster on "linking to added pages, in sidebar" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-to-added-pages-in-sidebar#post-448953 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:36:19 +0000 raincoaster 448953@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Use the Pages widget. It's designed for exactly this, especially since there are so many themes without tabbed headers.

]]> nosleepingdog on "linking to added pages, in sidebar" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-to-added-pages-in-sidebar#post-448952 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:34:17 +0000 nosleepingdog 448952@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My blog's http://nosleepingdogs.wordpress.com/

I'd like to have more added pages, and have the links to them appear in the sidebar because the present set-up, where they are at the top, is looking crowded.

I use the Cutline theme.

Is this something I can do within this theme? I've looked around in the Dashboard controls but did not find a way to do this.

Thanks.

]]> manojandsurya on "Customize navigation bar and pages widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customize-navigation-bar-and-pages-widget#post-440618 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:22:40 +0000 manojandsurya 440618@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks. I will play around based on your comments and let you know how it works out. I am sure the exclude on pages-widget will work out well for me.

]]> timethief on "Customize navigation bar and pages widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customize-navigation-bar-and-pages-widget#post-440306 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:31:49 +0000 timethief 440306@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Misty Look is a theme that does automatically include subpage links to child pages on parent pages. The Pages widget can be used to "hide" pages.

Exclude – If you would like to keep certain pages from being listed in the widget, you can enter the Page IDs (separated by commas). To find the Page ID, go to Pages->Edit and hover over the title of the page. The status bar of your browser will display a URL with a numeric ID at the end. This is the page ID. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/pages-widget/

In most wp.com themes, widgets are displayed on all dynamic pages (main posts page, category pages etc.) as well as when you view a static page or a single complete post. There are some exceptions or special cases but Misty Look is not among them. See > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/widgets/

I don't know if this "functionality" can be changed with CSS editing or not. I suspect that it may not be possible but you will have to wait until a Volunteer who does know the answer or Staff chime in.

]]> manojandsurya on "Customize navigation bar and pages widget" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/customize-navigation-bar-and-pages-widget#post-440286 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:48:35 +0000 manojandsurya 440286@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am looking to make just a couple seemingly simple changes to the mistylook theme. I want to customize navigation bar to not show some pages and also to have pages widget selectively display pages. And if possible have different different pages widget in different pages.

Everywhere I read, I note only mentions of hosting your own site and making updates to it (headers, pages, etc.). Is there a way to keep the hosting in wordpress and make the changes? Any pointers on where to start?

]]> nosleepingdog on "Truncated WP username" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/truncated-wp-username#post-316785 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:15:14 +0000 nosleepingdog 316785@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ While my blog is http://nosleepingdogs.wordpress.com/, WP tells me that my username is nosleepingdog.

I assume there's a character limit. Not a problem, but I wonder if it might be the cause that I am not able to use a WP log-in to post a comment on a friend's blogspot blog
http://annlittlewood.blogspot.com/2009/02/fortress-for-native-wildlife.html

When I select a profile from the dropdown menu, in order to be able to post a comment, it declines me if I use "nosleepingdog" or "nosleepingdogs" but I can log-in with hy google profile. The profile verifier illustrates WordPress "username" as "http://username.wordpress.com"

If I give my actual username, it would return an invalid url; if I use the name from the url it is not an official username...

Any ideas? or similar experiences?

]]> 1tess on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316690 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:08:00 +0000 1tess 316690@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My post above assumes you have already uploaded the picture.

A non HTML method to write a text widget is to make a draft post in the Visual Editor (remember to make your image small enough), add text, links, whatever. Then switch to html editor, copy the code. Paste it all into your text widget.

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316689 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:05:53 +0000 panaghiotisadam 316689@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If it doesn't show the URL, click "File URL".

]]> 1tess on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316688 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:03:49 +0000 1tess 316688@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It is a little old, but the editor still works the same:
dashboard > new post > "add an image" icon > "media library" > choose your picture > copy "link url"
Paste the url
<img src="URL_OF_YOUR_IMAGE">

]]> raincoaster on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316684 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:59:00 +0000 raincoaster 316684@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Once you upload an image, it does show a URL for the uploaded image. Copy that, and put it in the text widget using the code they show in that FAQ. The code is not outdated.

]]> virtualevents on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316655 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:01:17 +0000 virtualevents 316655@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am a little lost. This link takes me to a screen shot that appears out of date. The upload app does not look like that anymore and does not show a url for the uploaded graphic.

]]> 1tess on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316517 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:20:44 +0000 1tess 316517@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ virtualevents,

No that is an auto responder to screen out people who have wordpress.ORG blogs coming to the .com forum where our answers do not necessarily apply—their software is different. Ideally it should show the link, but…
Any way:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/put-an-image-in-your-sidebar/
Obviously you can add text with the picture if you like.

]]> virtualevents on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316514 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:51:33 +0000 virtualevents 316514@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK. The posting form asked for the link so I thought it would populate. It's http://www.eventplanet.wordpress.com

]]> ellaella on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316510 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:29:11 +0000 ellaella 316510@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We nearly always need a link to your blog before being able to give an answer that's right for you. You can link it to your user name - the how to is in the forum sticky called 8 Things to Know Before Posting.

]]> virtualevents on "Want to put an image in a text widget." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-put-an-image-in-a-text-widget#post-316509 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:26:53 +0000 virtualevents 316509@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I want to put an image that is in my media library inside a text widget. What is the proper HTML code for this?

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